Quotes About Trust

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

When it becomes serious, you have to lie.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

There are no true friends in politics.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

A better politics is one where we appeal to each other's basic decency instead of our basest fears.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.

In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.

Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.